my butt obama. what we believe is beautiful or not beautiful just because certainly people feel that a lot of what black women look is not something that they consider is beauty, and in the african-american community we see all of us as beautiful regardless of how we look, and its disconcerting that it's okay to say these things about the first lady of the united states. who by the way she's not over weight. look at the pieces written by my colleagues. >> jennifer: she's totally beautiful. she's not the anorexic stick that fashion magazines tout as ideal, due do not think that it makes her a better and powerful role model for young women. >> absolutely. one of the things that i mentioned in the article that i wrote in the "washington post." when black woman wore corn rows. it wasn't considered fashionable until was seen on bo derek. and then big puffy lips until we saw them on angelina jolie. and now frankly it seems very unfair that it is considered beautiful when we see it on a white woman and con